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50 Céntimos Murcia
| Issuer | Murcia, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Puente de los Peligros (Old Bridge) rendered in fine line engraving, with the Murcia Town Hall visible in the background; the carved sandstone sculpture El León del Malecón appears to the left. The promise-to-pay legend is arranged across the note in letterpress, with the denomination stated in words and figures. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA AGOSTO 1937 / MURCIA 50 CÉNTIMOS 50 (Translation: Spanish Republic August 1937 / Murcia 50 Centimos 50) |
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One of hundreds of local emergency issues produced by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republic's central government could not guarantee coin supply to provincial towns. Murcia's ayuntamiento printed fractional notes to replace the hoarded or melted copper and silver coinage that had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. These issues were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of sheer necessity.
The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these local Spanish issues, many of which were printed in tiny quantities on whatever paper stock was available, making condition highly variable across survivors.